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Potential New Cancer Gene Identified

...ered a new family of genes that contributes to the process of malignancy, shedding new light on the abnormalities that give rise to the aggressive childhood cancer, Burkitt's lymphoma - as well as lymphoma, leukemia, prostate, ovarian, lung, and breast cancer. Characterized by rapidly growing abdominal tum...

Naked DNA Vaccination May Conquer Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis

...pable of restraining the disease. Essentially, the process involves teaching the immune system how to correct its own mistakes, fooling the natural immune system into fighting itself by neutralizing the excessive cytokines and chemokines it is producing....

Consensus on "Combination Therapy" for Breast Cancer

...king treatment decisions has become a more complex process for them and their physicians due to a growing list of effective options."...

HIV infected patients can travel safely abroad

...can start living a near normal life and initiate a process of getting on with their lives. However before traveling they need to make sure that they don’t travel immediately after their antiretroviral therapy and that they don’t manifest any side effects of the same. Also they need to be counseled before t...

Gujarat quake-Rescue teams give up hope of finding more survivors

The rescue teams involved in the tedious process of finding survivors of the Gujarat quake, from below the rubble, are fast giving up hope of finding any more survivors. They are now concentrating in clearing the rubble and saving the injured who have been lucky to be saved so far. A miracle baby w...

Smoking a greater risk than HIV? Yes say health experts!!!!

...er of cigarettes sold!!!! The report adds that the process of globalisation is to be blamed for this, as the developing countries are forced to drop tariff barriers against highly successful international brands. Whatever be the reason one this is clear! Smoking is a sure killer. And in the years to come it ...

Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos

...dia, Mr Reddy said. Shanta Biotechnics was in the process of finalising its plans for a private placement to raise funds both for establishing an US FDA-approved research-cum-manufacturing facility and also to take up joint initiatives with pharma majors like the above, he said. Various studies and forecas...

Ductal lavage may detect early breast cancer

...and women without the disease to detect signs of a process called methylation. The presence of markers for this process suggests that a woman has breast cancer or precancerous breast cells, according to her.Ductal lavage...

Cipla holds talks with mining giant to supply AIDS drugs for South African workers

...s to combat the dreaded virus. As a part of this process the government is talking with Cipla to examine the feasibility of supplying cheap AIDS drugs for its people. Though AIDS activists have welcomed the move they say other companies must take the cue from cipla and follow suit....

Scientists plan human cloning clinic in the United States

...hnology is not yet perfected many believe that the process should not even by attempted on humans. It took 277 attempts to clone Dolly, who was created from a mammary cell of a 6 year old ewe. The 277 attempts yielded a mere 29 embryos, and only one of them survived to term. Multiple flawed embryos are likel...

IMA to create database on physicians

...ntry, be it allopathy or homeopathy, he said. The process of cataloging medical professionals commenced about four months ago. Speaking to presspersons, Dr. Malik said the effort to grade medical institutions, was part of an effort to ensure transparency and authenticity regarding the services provided by ...

Hypertensive Drug Improves Sexual Dysfunction in Hypertensive Men

...s the cause of impotence, really it is the disease process itself, probably from reduced vascular compliance. According to American Journal of Medical sciences, a study evaluated hypertensive men with erectile dysfunction and found that their overall sexual satisfaction rose from about 7.3% before losartan ...

One...just one cigarette can spoil the heart function.

...ppler echocardiogram was done before and after the process , and was found that , in the cigarette group, there were differences in several measures of heart blood flow, but no changes were noted in the second group, before or after chewing nicotine gum. In conclusion, immediately after smoking a single cig...

Surgery made simple

...new device has now been developed, which makes the process of providing artificial respiration to critically ill and comatose patients almost risk-free. The device, called Percutaneous Tracheostomy Kit would be used in the precutaneous procedure which involves giving artificial respiration to criticall...

Tea Tales

...nols protect the cells from damaging physiological process known as oxidative stress. Oxidation produces free radicals these are unstable molecules which occur naturally// in the body and an increased amount of them can damage cells resulting in heart diseases, cancer, cholestrol and BP.Polyphenols ca...

Focus on DNA transcription

...ical site is occupied, it markedly speeds up the// process by which the information contained in DNA,is conve...e of events in the body. Transcription is the process of making RNA chains from DNA.In a series of complicated experiments with the enzyme from the bacter...

Eat Vitamin C and stay young

...come the best measure of oxidant stress,a damaging process accelerated by smoking and other conditions that may contribute to heart disease and cancer, he said. The recommended daily allow-ance of vitamin C was raised last year by the National Academy of Sciences from 60 milligrams a day for both sexes to 7...

Herbs for Rememberance

... only arrests further loss but also slows down the process of subsequent reduction in senile dementia". The herb has been shown to arrest memory loss due to normal ageing.Brahmi is a fascinating herb which has been said to improve brain and peripheral circulation, improve mood, promote positive personality...

Silicon eye implants

...and implants ,a new annotation that is in research process happens to be the silicon implants.If these silicons are to used for the sake of blindness .....is there anyhting more to say. This is real and this is happening , the chip, called Artificial Silicon Retina (ASR), is being planned to be implanted in...

Quitting smoking stops lung decline

...decline in lung function is encouraging, since the process of quitting requires several attempts before the habit is eliminated. The results also suggest that the beneficial effect of smoking cessation on mortality may partly be mediated through a reduced decline in pulmonary (lung) function....

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